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Æ33 - Trajan L ΙΕ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 111-112 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Year 15 of Trajan's reign corresponds to 111–112 AD, placing this issue squarely within the period of Rome's greatest territorial expansion — Dacia had fallen, and the Parthian campaign was still years away. The Alexandrian mint operated under Roman prefectural authority but maintained its own regnal dating system using Egyptian years, a bureaucratic holdover from Ptolemaic administration that Roman governors never bothered to dismantle. Alexandria's bronze coinage circulated almost exclusively within Egypt; it was fiduciary currency tied to the closed monetary system Rome imposed on the province, meaning these bronzes were legally inconvertible outside Egyptian borders.